..Instead, findings suggest that young adults with a prior history of major depression hold exaggerated expectations about nicotine's positive effects, which could enhance their likelihood of initiating smoking...

The influence of personality and affect on nicotine dependence among male college students

..Fluoxetine improves affect in clinical syndromes such as depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Little is known about fluoxetine's influence on mood changes after quitting smoking, which often resemble sub-clinical depression...

Desire to dissociate: implications for problematic drinking in college students with childhood or adolescent sexual abuse exposure

..This research suggests that biochemical and psychosocial vulnerabilities influence anger rumination and cognitive flexibility, which may render incarcerated MA users at greater risk to relapse or recidivate upon release from prison...

Coerced childhood sexual abuse moderates the association between cigarette smoking initiation and college drug use frequency

..045) rather than non-CSA individuals (p =.103). Exploratory analyses further revealed that the CSA moderation was carried primarily by those exposed to forced/coerced CSA events. Implications of the findings are discussed...

The relationship between alexithymia and alcohol-related risk perceptions: The moderating effect of general trauma in a college population

..The current study highlights the importance of examining risk perception abilities in individuals with alexithymia and GTE as well as the impact of risk perception on alcohol-related risk behaviors...

Would smokers with schizophrenia benefit from a more flexible approach to smoking treatment?

..035), but not among those reporting no sexual trauma exposure (p = .333). Findings implicate the use of alcohol as a possible maladaptive coping mechanism among college females with childhood sexual trauma...

..05). Results support the utility of one-item screening questions as a "proxy" of a depressive vulnerability for smoking treatment studies that are not designed for comprehensive assessment procedures...